US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on June 9 for "System for and method of controlling watercraft" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,563, issued on June 9, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"System for and method of controlling watercraft" was invented by Hiroshi Inoue (Shizuoka, Japan), Daisuke Okamura (Shizuoka, Japan), Katsutoshi Naito (Shizuoka, Japan), Kunihiko Akahane (Shizuoka, Japan), Hiroaki Takase (Shizuoka, Japan), Kazumichi Yoshida (Shizuoka, Japan) and Tomohiro Hirota (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for controlling a watercraft includes a satellite positioning sensor, a remote sensor, and a controller. The satellite positioning sensor detects a position of a watercraft based on radio waves transmitted fro...